Try as I might, I could never deke my brother when he was bound and determined to smack me in the face.
February 18: frowsy
Frowsy was, indeed, the order of the day yesterday, at least amongst the subset of the public that spends its time at my place of work. Intriguing behavior included a colorful homeless man I like to call "The Bag Guy" (or 'the man who was living beneath the stairs at my old apartment building like a smelly old troll') who took it upon himself to give a new member of his ranks (no pun intended) a literal tour of the facility, complete with, "...and here's a good heat register to dry your socks if they get wet."
Today's activities included concluding the reading of a couple of books (Bibliophilia by Michael Griffith and Noble Destiny by Katie Macalister); paying bills; catching up on blog posts here and elsewhere; cleaning the kitchen (why oh why is that a neverending task?!); watching a movie (A River Runs Through It, which I haven't seen in years but, wow, loved it again just like before, and now I am SO much more homesick than I had been); and thinking about but not doing about twenty other things that desperately need doing before the weekend is over. I can't figure out if I'm disorganized, plagued by a time warp, or maybe just like everybody else.
[the title quotation is by Delmore Schwartz, from "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day"]
I vote for "just like everybody else" or at least me. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHmmm, our frowsies (frowsers?) don't have a place to dry socks--our heat comes from the ceiling. So far no one has brought in clotheslines.
I was going to offer 'frowseurs' but that sounds much more dirty than they actually are!
ReplyDeleteMaybe yours aren't that dirty, but some of ours can be smelled at 20+ yards... :-(
ReplyDeleteI meant "much more dirty" in an, er, different sense of the word. Ours are plenty dirty, thank you. We need no more dirty. We actually have a code for 'Do not use the hallway where the restrooms are, because one of them has been in recently and the hallway is still redolent with his aroma.'
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